Why do you persist in irritating everybody?

Steve Brown February 7th, 2011

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As you know, for months now, I've been working on a new book, Three Free Sins! God's Surprising Gift. I just finished the manuscript!

As soon as I finish writing you, I'm getting drunk. (Given that I don't consume alcoholic beverages, one beer ought to do it.)

Okay. I won't. But the thought is a pleasant one…transcendence in a bottle.

As I read over what I've written, some of it seems to me to be very good, some of it not half bad an … (Read More)

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Redeeming Singleness – Barry Danylak on SBE

Erik Guzman February 4th, 2011

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Have you been given the gift of singleness?

Many singles don't see their eligible status as a gift at all, especially those in the church. Barry Danylak is a single guy working to change that.

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Join Barry on this edition of Steve Brown Etc. as we talk about his book Redeeming Singleness: How the Storyline of Scripture Affirms the Single Life.

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Introverts in the Church – Adam McHugh on SBE

Erik Guzman January 28th, 2011

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Introverts, join us today on Steve Brown Etc. as we talk with Adam McHugh about how you can make peace with your personality and work out of it…not against it.

Extroverts, come back next week. You get enough attention.

Adam McHugh is the author of Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture. He's a Presbyterian minister, spiritual director, hospice chaplain and an introvert.

Listen as we discuss why Christian culture caters to ex … (Read More)

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Thank God for Evolution? – Michael Dowd on SBE

Erik Guzman January 21st, 2011

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What does the future hold for the relationship between evolution and the Christian faith? Starting this month, Michael Dowd is leading a series of 90-minute discussions on the topic with a wide range of participants from Evangelicals to Nobel Prize-winning scientists to Catholic nuns.

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What Would MLK Do?

Susan Isaacs January 19th, 2011

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This week our nation honored the life of Martin Luther King Jr., a Christian activist who led the civil rights movement using nonviolent means. He was assassinated for it. And though the civil rights movement continued, and though I believe that history is teleological, lately it doesn't seem to be moving toward a happy place. It's been a dark chapter in our history, as these last few weeks have highlighted.

The economy is in the toilet. Our culture has becom … (Read More)

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Why Are Young Christians Leaving the Church in Such Large Numbers?

John H. Armstrong December 27th, 2010

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In a recent provocative article by Drew Dyck, a manager in the Church Ministry Media Group at Christianity Today, there are alarming indications that young adults are leaving the church in record numbers. Some question this type of data but increasingly it seems to be beyond dispute. (I have rarely heard discussion of the fact that only 10% of the population attended church in 1800 before the campus revivals of New England and the Second Great Awakening!)

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